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Axalto R-UIM Cards Open Up Opportunities for CDMA Operators to Enhance Subscriber Experience in North America

Axalto demonstrates R-UIM cards with R-UIM enabled phones at CTIA Wireless 2006, booth 1844 CTIA WIRELESS 2006, LAS VEGAS, April 5, 2006–R-UIM cards and compatible phones are now available in North America, giving CDMA subscribers all of the benefits that were once exclusive to users of GSM networks, Axalto announced today. Axalto R-UIM cards ease…
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Giesecke & Devrient and MasterCard International Launch World’s First Over-the-Air Personalization Solution for Mobile Phone-Based Payments

New process eliminates time consuming need to “manually” personalize mobile handsets individually Munich/Las Vegas, April 05, 2006–Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and MasterCard International today announced, at the CTIA Wireless Conference in Las Vegas, the launch of the world’s first full-scale over-the-air (OTA) secure personalization payment solution for mobile phone-based payments, developed and managed by G&D….
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OTI Receives Vital Class A Approval for Saturn 5000 Contactless Reader

OTI Receives Vital Class A Approval for Saturn 5000 Contactless Reader FORT LEE, N.J., April 3–On Track Innovations Ltd, (OTI) (Nasdaq: OTIV – News), a global leader in contactless microprocessor-based smart card solutions, for homeland security, payments, petroleum payments and other applications, today announced that its Saturn 5000 contactless reader has received Class A approval…
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Shenzhen TsingHua Experiment School installed multi-functional LEGIC® smart card system

Shenzhen TsingHua Experiment School, which combined with primary, secondary schools and pre-university, located at BaoAn District of Shenzhen, PR China, has lately installed a LEGIC technology based multi-functional contactless smart card System through TsingHua Mao Wu Co.The system services over 5000 teachers and students, has one card issuing center, and manages five major buildings in…
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Plastic Card Specialist print-ID becomes new LEGIC® License Partner in Germany

Zurich/Switzerland, Gießen/Germany–LEGIC Identsystems AG, leading manufacturer of contactless smart card technology for personal identification applications and print-ID, supplier of products and services in the field of plastic card printing, have concluded a new license partnership. Two partners moving in the same direction: The fact that LEGIC and print-ID have teamed up is not a matter…
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ASK to supply contactless payment cards for Singapore

Partnership with Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore (NETS) signals new era for CashCard® applications Sophia-Antipolis, March 17, 2006–ASK has been selected by NETS, Singapore’s leading electronic payments provider to supply a new generation of its contactless payment card CashCard. The CashCard e-purse was originally launched in 1996 on a contact-based smart card. With the advent…
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Visa Introduces Contactless Mini Card, Making Payments Faster and More Convenient than Ever

Industry’s First Commercially Scalable Alternative Form Factor for Contactless Payments Now Available for Issuance SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2006–Visa today announced the availability of the Visa Contactless Mini Card, delivering all of the speed of contactless payments in a card that is about half the size of a traditional payment card and easy to carry…